November 15, 2006
Some good, more bad
November 15, 2006 | 8:05pmBy FRED KERBERThe good news is that Eddie House ran on a treadmill for the first time.The bad news is that Vince Carter felt sick - probably a flu -...
UPDATE: Urge to merge
November 15, 2006 | 3:37pmThe news of the day, clearly, is the US Airwaysannouncement that it wants Delta (currently in bankruptcy) in the worst way. Now, more than the last time they brought it...
STRATEGIES: One day out of San Francisco
November 15, 2006 | 1:08pmI am, as they say, on the horns of a dilemma. (Owwww...get me off get me off....) A friend is visiting San Francisco for the first time, and has one...
WEB MARKETERS PREP FOR A PRIVACY CLASH
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amCompanies that track Americans' Web-surfing habits could be headed for a sea of controversy similar to the kind that surrounded spyware, pop-up ads and other annoying Internet intrusions. Web giants...
MACKLOWE'S FOR MADISON ; FIRM SHIFTS TO OFFICE TOWERAIR APPARENT
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amTHE run-up in commercial office rents is spurring yet another developer to revise its plans from building luxurious hotel and condos to constructing an office tower. Macklowe Properties is now...
MIDDLEMAN TOOK $: FEDS; CLAIMS TO BE FBI INFORMANT
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amA financial analyst in the middle of a rough-and-tumble legal battle between insurance giant Fairfax and short-sellers was arrested and charged with engineering an alleged wire fraud scheme that netted...
S&P, DOW HIT ANOTHER RECORD
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amWall Street's getting some early holiday gifts - with the blue chip index roaring to yet another high and the broad Standard & Poor's 500 hitting a six-year record. Driving...
THE WICKER MAN; 10% STAKEHOLDER SHOWS BUYOUT INTEREST IN PIER 1
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amPier 1 Imports was poised to receive an offer yesterday from Danish retail tycoon Jakup Jacobsen, who is seeking to take full control of the struggling home-furnishings chain, sources said....
NYMEX TO THE MAX ; IPO VALUE UP 10%, ADDS ANOTHER 500K SHARES
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amThe New York Mercantile Exchange's public offering is expected to generate at least a three-fold return for buyout firm General Atlantic, which bought a stake in the world's largest energy...
ALICE IN RANDOMLAND; SEVENTIES 'SCHOOL'S OUT' ROCKER IN $500K BOOK DEAL
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amSHOCK rock heavy metal performer Alice Cooper, famed for 1970s hits "School's Out" and "No More Mr. Nice Guy," has just sold his memoirs to Random House's Crown Books imprint...
STARR REPORT
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amItch to hitch? In Touch magazine has an early line on the plot of the yet-to-be-filmed "Sex and the City" movie, which will star original cast members Kristin Davis, Kim...
RINSE & REPEAT - WAKING UP AGAIN ON SAME BAD 'DAY'
November 15, 2006 | 5:00am"Day Break" Tonight at 9 on Ch. 7 (three stars) WHILE this high concept show is too much for this particular low brow, it will be right up your alley...
TEA ROOM IS RUSHIN' BACK
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amWELCOME back, Russian Tea Room. We love West 57th Street's Czarist fantasy in red, green and gold. We're thrilled that protean chef Gary Robins has found a home on a...
HELL'S COMING TO MIDTOWN
November 15, 2006 | 5:00am* Gordon Ramsay at The London151 W. 54th St. (between Sixth and Seventh avenues); (212) 468-8888A la carte: $80; Menu Prestige: $110 Till now, you've known him as TV's "Hell's...
9/11 HERO GETS HOME 'MAKEOVER'
November 15, 2006 | 5:00am'EXTREME Makeover: Home Edition" is building a new house for the 9/11 hero who saved two cops at Ground Zero - then disappeared before anyone could ask his name. Jason...
O.J. WILL TELL HOW HE DID IT
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amO.J. SIMPSON has agreed to a TV interview on Fox, telling how he would have murdered his wife and her friend - if he'd done it. The special, called "If...
BLONDE AMBITION - 'LEGALLY' BACKER HOPES OTHERS FAIL
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amBOY, can theater people be nasty. They're always taking such delight in the misfortunes of others. Here, for instance, is what an investor in the upcoming "Legally Blonde" wrote, in...
SCANTIES - TYRA MAKES AUDIENCE STRIP DOWN
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amALWAYS wear clean underwear - because you never know when Tyra Banks will ask you to strip down to your skivvies. That's just what Banks does on today's "Tyra Banks...
DEMONS OF 'KILLER MA' - UNHAPPY 9TH B'DAY PARTY LED TO PILLOW SLAY & TRAIN LEAP
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amA Brooklyn mom told cops that "demons" made her smother her 9-year-son with a pillow after he complained about his birthday party the day before, investigators said yesterday. Grieving relatives...
ARABIAN NIGHTMARES; IRAQ'S BUTCHERS EXPLOIT OUR MORALITY
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amYESTERDAY, 80 terrorists in police uniforms raided an Iraqi research institute in Baghdad, rounded up 100-plus male students, loaded them into vehicles in broad daylight and drove away. They couldn't...
FDNY: DON'T SUPER-SIZE US
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amFire Department officials insisted yesterday that their extra-strong stretchers are strong enough to transport the morbidly obese in a medical emergency and they don't need to buy 10 super-sized ambulances...
$6 MILLION SCRATCH N' WIN - MORE CASH MORE WINNERS: ESTHER WINS $1,000
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amComedy booker Esther "Estee" Adoram is laughing all the way to the bank. She was downright giddy after winning $1,000 in The Post's $6 million Monopoly Scratch N' Win game....
'CORAL' SYMPHONY
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amHoly humming mammal! Dolphins at Disney's Epcot Center were recently taught to "sing" the theme song from the "Batman" TV series - a stunning development that scientists hailed as the...
CONDIT HITS DUNNE WITH NEW SUIT IN CHANDRA SLAY
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amFormer California Rep. Gary Condit has slapped Dominick Dunne with a second slander lawsuit, accusing the Vanity Fair writer of continuing to falsely link him to the murder of intern...
GOTBAUM EMPLOYS HARD CELL
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amPublic Advocate Betsy Gotbaum yesterday delivered a message to Mayor Bloomberg on behalf of more than 100 New Yorkers: Allow cellphones in schools. Gotbaum collected e-mails sent to her office...
APPLE LIKES MIKE AS MAYOR NOT PREZ ; ONLY 35% OF NYERS WOULD BACK HIM
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amA mere 35 percent of the city's voters would support Mayor Bloomberg if he decided to cut short his second term to make an independent run for the White House...
PROSTATE OK AFTER HORMONE BOOST
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amAging men can receive testosterone therapy to pump up their sex lives without damaging their prostates, a new study has found. The study released yesterday and published by the American...
'OSAMA'S CHANNEL' HITS N.Y.
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amAl-Jazeera, the Arabic TV network once called "Osama bin Laden's YouTube," launches an English-language channel today, but New Yorkers may have to look far and wide to see its programs....
9/11 RIP-OFF ARTIST JAILED
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amAn ex-con who helped rip off federal funds earmarked for Sept. 11 relief was sentenced to 10 months in prison yesterday after agreeing to cooperate with authorities. Gregory Allen, 43,...
NYPD'S MAJOR IN-VEST-MENT; 4,500 FINEST RECEIVEBETTER BODY ARMOR
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amLess than a year after the NYPD designed specially made bullet-resistant vests, about 4,500 of New York's Finest have been issued the body armor - and all 37,038 cops are...
KERRY ODD MAN OUT; 'PHOTO FINISHED' AS CHUCK GETS DEM POWER POST
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Any doubt that John Kerry is yesterday's news is obliterated by this photo of the former presidential contender - a mere blip in the background as the new...
LAWYER BLASTS IMETTE JUDGE
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amA lawyer for the bouncer accused of murdering John Jay College student Imette St. Guillen demanded yesterday that the judge in the case step aside, claiming she was part of...
WHEN YOU GOTTA GOYA, YOU GOTTA GOYA - BANDITS GRAB ART AS MOVERS MAKE 'P' STOP
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amA simple pit stop by the side of the highway led to the theft of an priceless painting by Spanish master Francisco de Goya while it was being transported to...
SLAY BLAME GAME; COPS, PAROLE FEUD
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amNYPD and parole brass waged a fierce finger-pointing war yesterday over who's at fault for dumping a career criminal on the streets, where he allegedly killed an innocent bystander. The...
PERFECT '10'
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amThey razzle-dazzled them, all right. With 50 starry alumni on stage - Brooke Shields, Melanie Griffith (right), Ashlee Simpson and Lynda Carter among them - there was no waiting for...
GRANDMA PELOSI WELCOMES NO. 6
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amFuture House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wasn't triumphantly strutting the halls of Congress on Monday - instead, she was nervously pacing the maternity wing of a New York hospital during the...
LAND' LORD - PILOT PUTS IT DOWN IN BROOKLYN PARK
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amWhen his single-engine plane faltered over Coney Island yesterday, a pilot landed safely in a city park - and said afterward that steering past the area's apartment buildings brought to...
BIBI: MAD MULLAHS THREATEN 'ANOTHER HOLOCAUST'
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amComparing Iran to Nazi Germany, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there is still time to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons. "It's 1938 and Iran is Germany. And...
W. TAKES 'KOREAN WAR' TO VIETNAM
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Focused on neutralizing North Korea and fighting global terrorism, President Bush jetted off to the Far East last night for a high-profile powwow with world leaders. The weeklong...
FRANK-LY, N.Y. GETS 'HOSED' ON $ECURITY
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - New York suffered a blow to its hopes of getting a bigger share of federal counterterrorism funds yesterday when Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), a powerful regional advocate, bolted...
FUND'S 'TRUST' BROKEN; BOSS 'STOLE' $1M
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amThe head of a small philanthropic foundation helped himself to more than $1 million of the organization's money, it was charged yesterday. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amBROOKLYN *** Police yesterday were searching for a mother who disappeared with her 3-month-old son last month from their Brownsville apartment. Shareen Rivas, 27 (above), and Tarfary Anthinez were last...
'UZI' MAN WAS OUT TO GET SIS PAL: COPS
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amThe gun-toting man who was shot by cops on a Queens street Monday was on his way to shoot his sister's ex-boyfriend, authorities said yesterday. Patrick Ledger, 33, of Brooklyn,...
'SUPER BIGOT'; NAOMI 'ATTACK' MAID: SHE HATES ROMANIANS
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amOne of Naomi Campbell's alleged victims is hitting back at the tempestuous temptress by accusing her of being bigoted against working people and Romanians. "Rather than a 'supermodel,' " the...
COPS IN SLAY BLAME GAME
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amNYPD and parole brass waged a fierce finger-pointing war yesterday over who's at fault for dumping a career criminal on the streets, where he allegedly killed a man. The agencies...
PROTESTING COLUMBIA
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amDozens of parents and children gathered at a West Harlem elementary school yesterday, chanting, "Save our school!" to protest a Columbia University proposal to use a portion of the building...
TEACH BUSTS BUS WINDOW
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amA fuming middle-school teacher punched out the window of school bus filled with children in Brooklyn yesterday after his car struck the vehicle, police said. Dante Hadley, who is assigned...
'DOPEY' INMATE BUSTED
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amThe prisoner who was slipped a loaded .38-caliber revolver - while being guarded by a disgruntled cop at Brookdale Hospital in Brooklyn - also had a stash of marijuana and...
OUT OF THE PICTURE; KERRY BARELY THERE AS CHUCK GETS DEM POWER POST
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Here comes the new leadership of the Democratic Party - and look who's been reduced to a mere background player. Foot-in-mouth former presidential candidate John Kerry yesterday appeared...
CUSTODIANS IN BID ME$$
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amTen custodians are about to get the heave-ho for allegedly taking part in fraudulent bidding schemes by awarding dirty vendors $400,000 worth of school-supply orders, authorities said yesterday. Three retired...
SECOND AVE. SUBWAY JITTERS
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amDozens of Upper East Side residents who could be forced to relocate because of the Second Avenue subway project expressed their concerns at a meeting with transit officials last night....
TOUSSAINT STILL STATION MASTER, HE TELLS DEBATE
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amRoger Toussaint tried to show who's union boss at a candidates' debate last night, calmly and confidently dismissing his opponents as lacking the skills needed to take on the MTA....
APPLE LIKES MIKE AS MAYOR NOT PREZ - ONLY 35% OF NYERS WOULD BACK HIM
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amA mere 35 percent of the city's voters would support Mayor Bloomberg if he decided to cut short his second term to make an independent run for the White House...
A CARNEGIE PAUL RECITAL
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amCLOSE your eyes, and it's 1964 all over again. It makes sense that Paul McCartney - the ex-Beatle now dabbling in divorce and classical-music composition - should cause a panic...
CONDIT SUING DUNNE AGAIN
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amFormer California Rep. Gary Condit has slapped Dominick Dunne with a second slander lawsuit, accusing the Vanity Fair writer of continuing to link him falsely to the 2001 murder of...
'BLOW' HARDS AT THE LIRR
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amThe Long Island Rail Road is just too darn loud, federal regulators say. When the LIRR's diesel locomotives blare their horns - as required at all rail crossings - the...
VIRGINIA - THE OLD DOMINION
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amOn June 25, 1788, Virginia became the 10th state to enter the union. VIRGINIA covers 39,598 square miles and was named for Britain's never-married "Virgin Queen" Elizabeth. Its nickname is...
LIRR A BUNCH OF 'BLOW' HARDS
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amThe Long Island Rail Road is just too darn loud, federal regulators say. When the LIRR's diesel locomotives blare their horns - as required at all rail crossings - the...
ROGER'S SLOGAN: 'I LIKE STRIKE'
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amIn order to win re-election as head of the Transport Workers Union, Roger Toussaint will need to convince his 37,000 members that last year's strike was worth it. "Just as...
JAGR EAGER TO SHOULDER HEAVY LOAD
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amINTO the Rangers' postgame locker room came a President of the Czech Republic. Oh, and Vaclev Havel (the former president) was there with Jaromir Jagr, too. The NHL can bestow...
A-ROD HAS AN OUT AFTER '07; COULD VOID FINAL 3 YEARS OF CONTRACT
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amNAPLES, Fla. - J.D. Drew opted out of the final three seasons and $33 million of his contract with the Dodgers to make himself a free agent. The Yankees should...
BOSTON BOUNTY ; RED SOX READY TO ROLL OUT THE WELCOME D-MAT
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amNAPLES, Fla. - So now what? The Mets and Yankees placed substantial bids for Daisuke Matsuzaka, sizing him up as the most appealing option for their common need: a top-of-the-rotation...
ISIAH BACKS HIS OLD COACH
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Isiah Thomas backed his old coach in the aftermath of the controversy that arose when Texas Tech coach Bob Knight forcibly flipped the chin of one his players...
MUSSINA RETURNS; MECHE ON RADAR
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amWith Mike Mussina re-upping to fall in between ace Chien-Ming Wang and Randy Johnson, if he is healthy, the Yankees have shown an interest in Seattle free agent Gil Meche...
BAD 'D' HAS NETS SWEATING
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amMaybe the Nets just were born too late. They've surrendered 107.7 points in their three defeats, just 91.3 in their three victories. Looking for the positive, if the Nets were...
ISLES LOVE TO HIT ROAD
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amThe Islanders play their next four games on the road, and as they try to stay in the mix in the Atlantic Division, being away from Nassau Coliseum may not...
BLEAK FOR ZEKE - WHAT'S WRONG WITH KNICKS? THIS'LL TAKE A WHILE
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amGOING into Monday night's game at the Garden, the Prophet Isiah alerted the media he'd made his pubescent flock aware of the value of starting games amped up. You'd think...
FLOYD GETS GOOD SHOT AT OSCAR
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amYou can count on the mother of all boxing promotions over the next six months in anticipation of the long-awaited showdown between the "Golden Boy" Oscar De La Hoya and...
VINNY NOW A PATRIOT
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amVinny Testaverde is back in the NFL saddle again. He is back as a 43-year-old insurance policy for the Patriots, Tom Brady and Bill Belichick. Testaverde is back for a...
STEPH'S NOT 'HOMING' IN
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amAs long as he's been dribbling a basketball, which is to say just about his whole life, Stephon Marbury has been a scorer. Now he admits it's been a struggle...
BOSTON BOUNTY ; BOSOX READY TO ROLL OUT WELCOME D-MAT
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amNAPLES - The Red Sox really want Daisuke Matsuzaka. It is right there in the bid simply to secure the right to negotiate with him - a bid that blew...
THREE-MENDOUS ; RANGERS STUN DEVILS WITH 3 GOALS IN THIRD
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amRangers 3Devils 2 The star-powered Ranger Lightning lasted only 90 seconds. Tom Renney believes it could resound the rest of the year. "I think it's a turning point in our...
LUKE DODGES IL, BUT ...
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES It's unlikely left tackle Luke Petitgout will be able to return during the regular season from the fractured left fibula he suffered Sunday night against the Bears, but...
LEON IN 'MIDDLE' OF FLAP
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amAn oddball flap has taken place in recent days regarding a collectors' football card of Jet rookie running back Leon Washington, whose card came out looking as if he were...
JET PROPELLED - MANGINI, TANNENBAUM TAKING OFF
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amWHEN Eric Mangini and Mike Tannenbaum loitered around that old copy machine in Cleveland nicknamed "The Queen Mary," they dreamed of days like this. Both were in the embryonic stages...
T.O. SAYS DON'T SLEEP ON COWBOYS
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amThe first-place Giants were still licking their wounds yesterday, and Cowboys receiver Terrell Owens hit Manhattan and poured salt on them. T.O. claimed the NFC East is still up for...
WHAT ABOUT BOB? GIANTS' SEASON MAY DEPEND ON WHITFIELD
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amA FUNNY guy, that Bob Whitfield. Need a quote, looking for an anecdote, he's your man. Like a few well-placed obscenities blended into every sentence? Dial up Big Whit. Prefer...
JAGR SHOWS HE'D BE ABLE TO TAKE OVER
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amINTO the Rangers' postgame locker room came a President of the Czech Republic. Oh, and Vaclev Havel (the former president) was there with Jaromir Jagr, too. The NHL can bestow...
N.Y.'S READY FOR BIG GAME
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amTHE main event for hunting in New York State - the regular deer season in the Southern Zone - starts this weekend. The regular deer-hunting season opens at sunrise on...
RANGERS, DEVILS STILL DO THINGS VERY DIFFERENTLY
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amTHE Devils serve as a counterpoint to the Rangers because they play right across the Hudson, because they've won three Stanley Cups since the Blueshirts won their one for the...
SHAN-ING MOMENT - BRENDAN GIVEN INAUGURAL MESSIER AWARD
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amIt is an understated award, the way one for leadership should be, and it didn't even make it off the dias intact. When Brendan Shanahan began heading off with the...
EL-EMENTAL - METS BRING BACK DUQUE
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amAlthough they lost Daisuke Matsuzaka to the Red Sox, the Mets officially re-signed Orlando Hernandez yesterday and are trying to project strength toward the winter market. The Mets, who also...
BOMBERS SHOULD REVERSE ROCKET, PETTITTE MIGRATION
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amNAPLES, Fla. - Following the 2003 season, Andy Pettitte left the Yankees for the Astros and his presence convinced his pal Roger Clemens to forego retirement and join him in...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
November 15, 2006 | 5:00amHoly humming mammal! Dolphins at Disney's Epcot Center were recently taught to "sing" the theme song from the "Batman" TV series - a stunning development that scientists hailed as the...